Chapter 11 The Tong Family is in Conflict

The old Tong family is a poor family in the village. Tong Xiayue's father Tong Xingye is the second oldest in the family. The couple worked in a textile factory in the town.

The textile factory was a state-owned unit at the time. Both of them were formal workers, with a monthly salary of 35 yuan, which was 70 yuan for two people.

In addition to the salary of Tong Xingye and his wife, the family lived on the one mu and three mu of land at home.

Except for the second oldest family, all the Tong family members were lazy and gluttonous. The whole family depended on the salary of Tong Xingye and his wife. Every month when the salary was paid, Tong Baotian asked them to hand over the salary to him, and all the expenses of the family were paid from him.

The second brother's wife and son were both honest people. After handing over their wages, they didn't care where the old man spent the money. They just thought that the old man must have spent the money on the family, so they didn't ask any more questions.

In fact, with a monthly salary of 70 yuan, they could live well in the village, at least they could eat meat once a week.

But looking at the skinny and weak appearance of the children in the family, you can tell that his family can't eat meat once a month...

Tong Baotian was an extremely stingy person. Every time he got the wages of the second brother's wife and son, he hid it. The family drank porridge when they should, and ate vegetable leaves when they should, without any change...

Everyone in the family knew that the old man had hidden the money to prepare for the third grandson Tong Hongwen to marry a wife, but he didn't say it openly, and no one could bring it up to make a fuss!

Tong Xingye and his wife were hardworking people. Not only did they work in the textile factory, but they would also go up the mountain to collect some herbs after work and bring them to the town to exchange for food and daily necessities at home.

One rainy day, the two went up the mountain to collect herbs when they had an accident and rolled down the mountain. They both died on the spot...

Tong Xingye and Su Caiying had been married for many years but had no children. Tong Baotian had always disliked this second daughter-in-law who could not hatch eggs.

Later, in a cold winter, the couple picked up a baby girl at the factory gate after work.

In that era, everyone valued boys over girls. They guessed that someone must have thrown away the child because they disliked the fact that the child was a girl.

Su Caiying picked up the tightly wrapped baby girl, and saw that her chubby little face was frozen pale, her lips were bluish purple, and her whole body was cold, without any warmth.

She wrapped the baby girl in her blouse, and Tong Xingye also rubbed the baby girl's hands in his palms, and gradually the baby girl warmed up.

The baby girl slowly opened her eyes and smiled at Tong Xingye and his wife, which made the couple feel warm.

How could they bear to reject such a beautiful baby? The more they looked at the baby, the happier they were, so they discussed taking the baby home to raise.

When they first brought the baby home, Tong Baotian got angry at them, saying that they were infertile and brought a worthless baby back to share food!

Later, Tong Xingye asked repeatedly and he could only agree reluctantly because they handed in their monthly wages.

Tong Xiayue knew she was adopted since she was a child. She was bullied by her cousins ​​and had to do everything at home, while they were idle all day.

Tong Baotian had two sons. The second son and his wife died young, leaving only the eldest son's family.

Fortunately, the eldest son Tong Jianjun's wife was fertile, and they had the eldest sister Tong Zhaodi, the second brother Tong Liangcai, and the third brother Tong Hongwen.

Cousin Tong Zhaodi married the old Wang family in the neighboring village, but her husband died of illness a few years later. She had no children and was driven back to her parents' home by her in-laws.

No wonder she was driven back. She was lazy and ate all day. She was eight or nine years old, but she only knew how to go from house to house with a handful of melon seeds and gossip.

The second brother was an honest man, like grandma, and he worked hard, but he had no ambition and listened to his wife.

The second sister-in-law was a big mouth in Yangliu Village. Like Li Aihua, she was full of calculations and thought about how to cheat Tong Baotian out of his money.

The third brother was 22 years old this year. He was a vagrant in the village and didn't know what to do. The family couldn't do anything about him, so they could only let him do what he wanted. Although he was not knowing what to do, he could coax Tong Baotian to treat him surprisingly well.

Therefore, whatever delicious food and drink there was at home inevitably went into his mouth. This person was not used to it. He was used to it since he was a child, and he thought that all the good things in the Tong family should belong to him, which made him have a lot of bad habits.

This quarrel was because Tong Baotian was going to use the wages handed in by Tong Xingye and his wife and the 600 yuan dowry money from Tong Xiayue's marriage to build a house, and this house was used for the third grandson Tong Hongwen to marry a wife.

Hearing this, the second sister-in-law Wang Aiqin was unhappy. When she married into the Tong family, the Tong family was very poor and still lived in a mud house. The family of four squeezed into one room.

The children have grown up, especially their eldest son, who is ten years old this year and still sleeps in the same bed with them...

Now when she heard that the grandfather was going to build a new house for the third son and find him a wife, she was unwilling to do so.

After hearing the news, Wang Aiqin sat on the ground and burst into tears, beating her chest and stamping her feet: "Grandpa! Mom and Dad! I have been married to the Tong family for ten years. What happiness have I enjoyed in all these years? I

have been busy running around for the Tong family. Our family of four is still squeezed into a small room. Now you say you want to build a new house for the third child to get him a wife. Aren't you bullying our second child who is honest?"

Second aunt Wu Ping and grandmother Xu Guixiang hurried forward to pull her up, but she was too fat and could not be pulled up at all. They could only let her lie on the ground...

Wu Ping: "Aiqin, don't worry, you have worked hard for so many years, we will not let you suffer any grievances, it's not that the third child hasn't found a wife yet! The money in hand There is a limit to how much money you can afford. Let him find a wife first. It’s impossible to find a wife without a house in the village now!”

Tong Zhaodi walked over and looked at Wang Aiqun who was sitting on the ground and making a fuss, as if she was watching a joke: “You have suffered so much for so many years, can’t you endure it anymore? Besides, don’t you have no money? How about you also pay some money and let grandpa build one for you?”

Wang Aiqun was so angry when she heard Tong Zhaodi’s words that she immediately got up from the ground, pointed at her nose and cursed: “Who do you think you are? How dare you ask us to endure it? You are a married old girl, and now you come back to occupy a house! You should endure it at your husband’s house!”

Tong Zhaodi was not someone to be trifled with. Isn’t it like plucking hair from a tiger’s head to hear this?

"Wang Aiqin, you finally said it out loud. You have disliked me for a long time! I am the daughter of the Tong family, who do you think you are? How dare you act in

a way that would put me in a superior position in my family! Get out of here if you don't want to live!" Wang Aiqin's face flushed with anger. She walked up to Tong Zhaodi and grabbed her hair and started pulling it. Tong Zhaodi screamed in pain.

Wu Ping and her second brother Tong Liangcai also came over to stop the fight, but they underestimated the fight between women. They could not stop the fight at all, not to mention that both of them had been holding back their resentment for so long, and they had to vent their anger when they found this opportunity.

At this time, the third child, Tong Hongwen, also came back from outside. Seeing the eldest sister and the second sister-in-law fighting at the door, he immediately got angry and shouted, "Eldest sister! Second sister-in-law! Come on! Slap her in the face!"

The scene was chaotic for a while, and the neighbors all stretched their heads to look.